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I think I read that the Cubs haven't won the Crosstown Cup in 7 years?
Is that right?
Did you even know there was an actual Crosstown Cup?
Well, there's a buncha Cubs posed next to it right there in this morning's Trib!
(Here's a screen grab from their photo section ):
Kind of an unfortunate crop on David DeJesus, who looks like he's doing an impersonation of Peter Seller's doing Toulouse Lautrec.
But anyway...Travis Wood.
We've talked a little about him and this impossibly cool season he's having so far, and what a plain old jock he is.
An all around athlete type.
Shutting down the Sox (and pretty much every other team he's faced) with his arm, pinch running him since Tony Campana isn't around, and yesterday hitting a grand slam!
Super coordinated.
He probably played football and basketball in high school.
He probably would whoop you at golf.
Or yo-yo.
I had Emily's radio on in the office when he hit it out, and we've re-done our offices so that it's all modern - an "open space". And that means there are no doors on any offices. So, you know, if you sit on my floor and you were here yesterday afternoon, sorry if I disturbed you.
Everybody got in the act, really.
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A Swedish Christian businessman swindled friends, family, and missionaries of millions of dollars
Ken Walker | posted 6/08/2011 09:52AM
When Jan and Henny Pauw visited Le Rucher on a summer missions trip, they never dreamed it would wind up costing them their retirement nest egg. The Dutch couple became ensnared in a faith-based Ponzi scheme that operated for a dozen years before it unraveled.
Nestled on two acres at the base of France's Jura Mountains and the nearby Swiss Alps, the Le Rucher retreat center opened in 1994 to help stressed-out missionaries recuperate. But Le Rucher became the setting for the promotion of the fraudulent Nordic Capital Investments (NCI), which has created resentment toward Le Rucher co-founder Erik Spruyt. Last October, Swedish businessman Kristian Westergard, the founder of NCI and a close associate of Spruyt's, was convicted of gross fraud in Sweden and sentenced to prison.
In 1998, the Pauws went to Le Rucher—then associated with Youth With a Mission (YWAM)—with their evangelical church in Ermelo, the Netherlands. An industrial chemist by trade, Jan had never been on a Christian mission. On the couple's first trip, Spruyt suggested they consider becoming long-term volunteers. Jan replied that they couldn't afford it.
When the Pauws returned the following summer, Spruyt repeated the suggestion. Jan demurred. Then, they say, Spruyt introduced them to NCI, a special investment fund that paid interest of 15 percent a year (the rate on a contract they later signed). It had the potential to generate enough income to support the couple. Part of the attraction was the promise that some of the fund's earnings would generate charitable support for select Christian missions. The Pauws invested euros worth $260,000. The following year they moved to Le Rucher as volunteers.
In total, the couple received more than $230,000 before payments ceased. But the principal amount of their nest egg has vanished. They still rue their decision to trust Spruyt's referral to NCI. In a 2001 e-mail with a sample NCI contract, he said, "If you want to take this seriously then this is the procedure that I recommend to you with the amount you want to invest."
"All we have now is our old-age pension and a small pension from my work as an industrial chemist," Pauw says. "Sometimes we think, How could we have been so stupid to believe them? Why did we trust them?"
Read the rest of this article at Christianity Today here >>>
Some remarks
I guess what we are reading here is how well affinity frauds work. You gain the trust of the leaders or as a leader you have a natural amount of trust associated with you and from there on it becomes easier to lure in new victims. And for the record this works the same with all these marvelous business opportunities that lure in the small people. It is not surprising that these business opportunities are so often targeted at church communities: there is a naturally higher level of trust.
Part of why this works is that lack of financial understanding, business understanding, innumeracy so you which is being replaced by trust in the person offering you the opportunity. It is for this reason that leaders are targeted first. Once you have the leader over the bridge the rest of the sheep will follow. And for the record, no one is immune and we all run a risk of falling for it.
On Affinity Fraud
Affinity fraud is when one person gains the trust of others because they share the same religion, race, ethnicity, career or other social characteristic and then deceives them in some kind of financial transaction. Now this is not necessarily intentional, as this may also be the result of a misguided participant in one scheme or another, a gifting club or pyramid scheme or the pyramid scheme posing as a legitimate MLM.
In a world of increasing complexity many do not know how to properly investigate the credibility of an offering and trust becomes an increasing factor relied on.
"You can trust me, because I'm like you. We share the same background and interests. And I can help you make money."
The normal process of cautious skepticism is replaced by social blah blah, and for the record, it works. Another tactic used is to first lure in some prominent members of a group and once that is done the others are pitched using the credibility and good name of the group leaders: the elder, the pastor etc.
With the hierarchy of leaders and followers already established, the investment becomes merely an extension of our desire to belong and be accepted.
The fact that some of the earlier entrants, the ones you know and trust, are receiving good money is not a guarantee that it is all good, that is the essential working of a pyramid scheme, the high INITIAL returns. The case outlined in Christianity Today show that exactly and there are many more known cases throughout history.
What makes those types of scams extra attractive is that once an affinity fraud victim realizes that he or she has been scammed, all too often the response is not to notify the authorities but instead to try to solve problems within the group. This usually just ensures that the fraud continues without anyone reporting it to the authorities until it is too late to recover funds. Scammers recognize that the tight-knit structure of many groups makes it less likely that a scam will be detected by regulators and law enforcement officials, and that victims will be more forgiving of one of their own members.
Some tips
Some way to revent becoming a victim of affinity fraud are:
No matter how well you know someone or think you can trust them, always be cautious when it comes to handing over your hard earned money. Ask questions about the scheme and keep on doing that until you understand the scheme. Let them know that you are aware of all the scams that are taking place regularly in today's world. Just because a person is a fellow Christian, it does not mean that he or she is a good person who will not cheat you, intentionally or out of ignorance.
Use the Net, call others with financial; insights and not associated with the scheme or seek professional advice, but whatever you do, never step into a scheme you do not understand.
The strange thing is that many of these schemes promise high yield on low risk or even risk free investments. In the financial world however the principle is usually exactly the other way around: the higher the returns the higher the risks. Greed is a sin, not just because the Bible tells us it is, but because nothing good can come of greed. It leaves us wanting more and more, no matter how much we already have. Desist from this emotion and you and your money are safe. Know that God will provide you in all your needs which is something different than all your wants.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon would be the best person to lead the U.S. Treasury Department in a financial crisis, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said.
"If we did run into problems in markets, I think he would actually be the best person you could have in the job," Buffett said in response to a question about Dimon from Charlie Rose, according to the transcript of an interview that was scheduled to air yesterday on PBS. "World leaders would have confidence in him."
President Barack Obama is seeking to replace Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, who had said he planned to step down. Dimon, 56, testified before Congress and shuffled top managers this year after the bank disclosed a loss, now of more than $6.2 billion, stemming from a wrong-way bet on credit derivatives. Buffett has described Dimon's annual letter to shareholders as a must-read.
"Obviously, you know, there was a failure of control," Buffett, 82, said to Rose about the trading loss. "If you run an army, if you run a church, if you run a government, any large institution, people will go off the reservation sometimes."
Joseph Evangelisti, a JPMorgan spokesman, declined to comment. Amy Brundage, a spokeswoman for Obama's administration, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Dimon, once dubbed Obama's "favorite banker" by the New York Times, said in a 2011 CNBC interview that he could never work as Treasury secretary and was "not suited to politics."
Dimon has criticized elements of the Dodd-Frank Act and the expense of financial regulations. He publicly questioned Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke on regulatory costs last year. In January, he said that if he were in charge, he would fix the U.S. housing market by locking mortgage lenders and regulators behind closed doors until they figured it out.
Dimon has urged lawmakers to solve the so-called fiscal cliff, the package of automatic spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect in January.
Four current and two former administration officials earlier this month named two other likely candidates for Treasury secretary: White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew and Erskine Bowles, who was President Bill Clinton's chief of staff.
Buffett held 1 million JPMorgan shares in his personal account, according to a transcript from a July 13 Bloomberg Television interview.
'Quite Promptly'
Buffett reiterated his call for lawmakers to raise taxes on the rich as part of a deal to address the U.S. budget deficit and avoid the fiscal cliff, which would impose more than $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts starting in January. Buffett said the economy could withstand a failure to meet that deadline if lawmakers were working toward a fix.
"I don't think it will do that much," Buffett said when Rose asked about the cliff. "People will assume that a solution will be found quite promptly."
The remarks contrast with comments Dimon made in June when the banker told a Senate panel that the government could risk an earlier-than-expected fiscal crisis if policy makers were deadlocked on taxes and the budget.
"The one thing to keep in mind about the fiscal cliff is it may not wait until Dec. 31," Dimon told the Senate Banking Committee. "Markets and businesses may start taking actions before that, that create a slowdown in the economy."
Buffett, who has been conducting media interviews to promote a book about him by Carol Loomis of Fortune magazine, said in a separate interview today on MSNBC that the ability of some of the highest earners to avoid federal taxes shows why laws should be changed so the wealthy pay more.
'The Moochers'
"They were the moochers, and they paid zero," Buffett said on MSNBC. "The way they get at them is a minimum tax and it's very simple to do." Buffett said in a New York Times opinion piece yesterday that higher taxes on the wealthy won't thwart investment.
Mitt Romney, the defeated Republican presidential candidate, said in comments broadcast on CBS's "60 Minutes" in September that low rates are "the right way to encourage economic growth, to get people to invest." Romney, speaking to campaign donors at a private fundraiser in May, said Obama's support came from the 47 percent of Americans who see themselves as "victims," dependent on government.
Buffett said today that among the 400 with the highest incomes in the U.S. in 2009, the average income was about $200 million, and that six people in that group paid "nothing at all."
"They were in Romney's 47 percent," Buffett said.
Buffett's tax bill for 2010 was about $6.9 million, or 17 percent of taxable income, he wrote in the Times last year. He said that's a lower rate than the other 20 employees in Berkshire's office in Omaha, Nebraska, and that the wealthy benefit from favorable treatment of capital gains and dividends, compared with wages. Buffett's salary is $100,000 a year.
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Newly vegan and my little body does not like to process all the beans and tomatoes I have been consuming. I want to take the week off from these two ingredients but need some go to recipes. Made some not tuna salad today possibly an avocado pasta this evening... Need some more ideas.. Thanks in advance!
Hey Hippie! I had the same problem. Take it easy. Your system will adjust to the new athletic way it has to respond to your diet. Tomato sauce is full of lycopene, which is murder on cancer, so integrate it back into your diet slowly. I OD'd on raw veggies at first and had to cut back on them. Lentils and quinoa might be a bit easier to digest so try those protien souces too. Or, stay with polenta, cream of wheat even oatmeal for a bit, until the intestines start doing their job properly. Read, research, but above all, don't give up!


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Joint Injections / Aspiration
Removing fluid from a joint (joint aspiration) for laboratory testing can help a doctor diagnose the nature and severity of a patient's condition. Some types of conditions, such as tendonitis or bursitis, benefit from the injection of medications into the joint space. Joint injections or aspirations are usually done under local anesthesia in the doctor's office or in a hospital.
Joints that are commonly injected include the knee, shoulder, ankle, elbow and wrist, as well as small joints of the hands and feet. Hip joint injection may require the aid of an X-ray called fluoroscopy for guidance. Facet joints of the lumbar spine (low back area) may also be injected by experienced rheumatologists, orthopedists, anesthesiologists and radiologists.
Joint Injections
Joint injections are given to treat inflammatory joint conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, gout and occasionally osteoarthritis. Most joint injections use anti-inflammatory drugs called corticosteroids (such as methylprednisolone or triamcinolone). Corticosteroids are frequently used for this procedure as they are anti-inflammatory agents that slow down the accumulation of cells responsible for producing inflammation within the joint space.
Although corticosteroids may also be successfully used in osteoarthritis, their mode of action is less clear. Hyaluronic acid (Hyalgan®, Synvisc®) is a viscous lubricating substance that may relieve the pain of osteoarthritis of the knee or other degenerative joint diseases.
Corticosteroids act locally and have few systemic side effects (such as a fever, rash or a disturbance of an internal organ). Common side effects include allergic reactions to the medicines injected into joints, to tape or to the betadine used to clean the skin. Infections are extremely rare. Another uncommon complication is post-injection flare - joint swelling and pain several hours after the corticosteroid injection - which occurs in about one out of 50 patients and usually goes away in several days.
It is not known if joint damage may be related to frequent corticosteroid injections. Generally, repeated injections into the same joint/site should be discouraged. Other complications, though rare, include a whitening of the skin, local thinning of the skin at the injection site and rupture of a tendon located in the path of the injection. The most common reasons for not doing a joint injection are having an infection in or around a joint or if someone has a serious allergy to one or more of the drugs that are injected into a joint.
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Joint aspiration is usually performed as a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure. Laboratory analysis of the fluid taken from a joint may include:
- White and red blood cell counts
- Crystal analysis to confirm the presence of gout or pseudogout
- Cultures to determine if there is an infection inside the joint
Draining fluid from a large joint effusion can provide pain relief and improved mobility. Injection of a drug into the joint may yield complete or short-term relief of symptoms.


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The St. Louis Symphony announced today a change to the September 30, 2011 concert at Powell Hall. Schoenberg's Five Pieces for Orchestra will now be performed in lieu of Edgar Meyer's Double Bass Concerto No. 3. The concerto was to have had its world premiere at Powell Hall, but it has not yet been completed. The September 30 program also includes works by Ives, Copland and Gershwin's An American in Paris. Tickets are still available and can be purchased on line at www.stlsymphony.org, by phone at 314-534-1700 or in person at Powell Hall's box office, 718 North Grand Boulevard, St. Louis, MO 63103.


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Wednesday, the day after….Morning reads.Posted: December 26, 2012 Filed under: American Gun Fetish, corporate greed, energy, Environment, Environmental Protection, Fox News, Gun Control, morning reads, U.S. Politics, Water, We are so F'd | Tags: David Petraeus, hijack the presidency, Michael Moore, Murdoch, Newtown CT, nuclear energy, pollution, Shooting victims, uranium mine 17 Comments
Good morning everyone.
Horrible weather is making its way across the US, so first…before we get to any reads, make sure you keep an eye out for bad storms.
Intellicast – Current Radar in United States
This image of a lighted tree in a pope mobile/sleigh is appropriate for the wet and cold days this holiday.
Let's start this post with some thoughts on Newtown, CT., both of which are very emotional…for different reasons.
Mom of Sandy Hook Child Victim Shares Daughter's 'Message From Beyond the Grave' in Incredibly Moving CNN Interview
Grace McDonnell was one of the 20 children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School this month. As her parents are grieving the loss of their bright-eyed, seven-year-old daughter, they can take at least some solace in a sign of comfort that she left behind.
Grace was known for leaving messages on the family's bathroom window — notes and symbols that would show up once fog clouded the room from shower steam. And the day after her death, seemingly on cue, one of these notes appeared to her mother.
Grace McDonnell, one of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre (Photo Credit: CNN)
On the first day without her daughter, Lynn McDonnell said that the message on the window was a peace sign, Grace's favorite symbol. Above it were the words, "Grace, Mom." CNN was moved to call the family's finding "a message from beyond the grave."
"I looked and there was her peace sign in the window and I was like, 'That's a sign from my Grace,'" Lynn said. "She was all about peace and gentleness and kindness."
Heartbreaking. As many of us are thankful this holiday season is almost over, it makes me stop and think how lucky we are to even have a holiday filled with the usual stresses and family dinner get-together, whether they are enjoyable or not.
The other link I have for you is just more discussion on gun-control, in an op/ed from Michael Moore: 3 Reasons America Is Falling Apart — And How We Can Save Ourselves
After watching the deranged, delusional National Rifle Association press conference on Friday, it was clear that the Mayan prophecy had come true. Except the only world that was ending was the NRA's. Their bullying power to set gun policy in this country is over. The nation is repulsed by the massacre in Connecticut, and the signs are everywhere: a basketball coach at a post-game press conference; the Republican Joe Scarborough; a pawn shop owner in Florida; a gun buy-back program in New Jersey; a singing contest show on TV, and the conservative gun-owning judge who sentenced Jared Loughner.
So here's my little bit of holiday cheer for you:
These gun massacres aren't going to end any time soon.
That is just the first few lines of the op/ed, please take a look. I don't usually post links to the rants of Michael Moore…but he sure as hell got the Columbine story the attention it deserved…along with other gun related shootings and killings in his film, Bowling for Columbine. Anyway, take a few minutes to read his opinion.
This next story is fascinating from an environmental stand-point. After you read it, just think of the disaster in the making: Proposed Coles Hill uranium mine: Buried treasure or hidden threat?
Beneath an estate that's been farmed by the Coles family since just after the Revolutionary War lies the nation's largest untapped uranium deposit, a potential $10 billion bonanza amid rolling hills, oak trees, pastures and a historic plantation home.
The radioactive treasure in the Blue Ridge foothills is pitting neighbor against neighbor and North Carolinians against Virginians. North Carolina is only about 20 miles from the proposed uranium mine and residents, public officials and lawmakers there worry that a catastrophic release of radioactive waste could poison Kerr Lake, the drinking water source for more than 118,000 North Carolinians, as well as contaminate the fishing- and recreation-rich Roanoke River as far east as Pamlico Sound.
With the recent ProPublica report on the contamination of water aquifers by the US government, this "mother-lode" of radioactive uranium seems like a mining operation that is just asking for trouble.
From the Guardian, this question is one we all should be asking…from Carl Bernstein: Why the US media ignored Murdoch's brazen bid to hijack the presidency
The Ailes/Petraeus tape made clear to many that Murdoch's goals in America have always been nefarious. Photograph: Reuters
So now we have it: what appears to be hard, irrefutable evidence of Rupert Murdoch's ultimate and most audacious attempt – thwarted, thankfully, by circumstance – to hijack America's democratic institutions on a scale equal to his success in kidnapping and corrupting the essential democratic institutions of Great Britain through money, influence and wholesale abuse of the privileges of a free press.
In the American instance, Murdoch's goal seems to have been nothing less than using his media empire – notably Fox News – to stealthily recruit, bankroll and support the presidential candidacy of General David Petraeus in the 2012 election.
And like the rest of the articles I have for you this morning, it is just a few first lines, read the rest at the link.
That is all I have for you this morning, how was your holiday and what have you been ready lately?


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Grzywacz earns second straight Defensive Player of the Year honor
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Senior Brittany Grzywacz (Collegeville, Pa.) captured her second consecutive Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honor, winning as a unanimous selection from the conference coaches. The defender becomes just the second Nittany Lion to earn the award in back-to-back seasons, joining Jen Long who accomplished the feat in 2007 and 2008.
The senior is joined by Laura Gebhart (Mount Joy, Pa.) and Kylie Licata (Mountain Top, Pa.) on the first team All-Big Ten list, while Taylor Herold (Fredericksburg, Va.) and Ashtin Klingler gain second team All-Big Ten recognition. Senior defender Abby Fuhrman (Bainbridge, Pa.) is Penn State's recipient of the Sportsmanship Award Honorees.
Grzywacz turned in a stellar senior season for the Blue and White, ranking second on the team in goals with 10, including leading the Big Ten with seven game-winning scores. The senior anchors the Nittany Lion back line that allowed just seven goals in Big Ten play, tied for fewest in the conference.
The Collegeville native dominated the Big Ten weekly awards, capturing four Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week accolades. With being recognized this season as a first team All-Big Ten performer, Grzywacz has earned either first or second team All-Big Ten status each of her four seasons at Penn State.
Gebhart is also no stranger to Big Ten awards. The junior has now been selected as a first team All-Big Ten honoree all three years as a Nittany Lion. Gebhart captains the midfield for the Blue and White, controlling the tempo and connecting the defense and attack. The midfielder leads the Big Ten in assists with 12 and ranks fourth on the NCAA active career assists leaders list as just a junior.
Licata marks PSU's third athlete to be named a first team All-Big Ten selection. The Mountain Top, Pa. native has made a significant impact in her first season between the posts as the Lions goalkeeper. Licata is tied for first in the Big Ten in shutouts with seven, which also places the keeper tied for fourth in the nation. The goalkeeper also ranks second in the conference in save percentage and goals allowed.
Representing Penn State on the second team where forwards Klingler and Herold. This is the second consecutive year that Klingler has received this honor. The senior has scored seven goals on just 24 shots, proving to be one of the Nittany Lions' most efficient attackers. Klingler is third on the team in goals and has provided the Blue and White with two game winners this season.
2013 marks the first season that Herold has been named All-Big Ten. The junior had an impressive season in front of the opposition's cage, leading Penn State in goals with 11, while adding four assists to total a career-high 26 points. The forward has notched two multi-goal performances, the most of any Nittany Lion this season. Herold received Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors this season after lifting the Lions to a 4-3 shootout victory over Michigan State.
Fuhrman collects Penn State's Sportsmanship Award Honoree this season. The senior defender has scored her first two career goals this season, while also playing a vital central defender position for the Nittany Lions. The Sportsmanship Award is granted to a student-athlete who has distinguished themselves through sportsmanship and ethical behavior while also maintaining good academic standing and demonstrating good citizenship outside of the sport.
Penn State's six award winners are more than any other team in the conference, with Michigan State earning five recipients. With Grzywacz's Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year award, Penn State has now received the honor 10 times since joining the conference in 1992, five more than the next closest program.
Penn State will begin postseason play on Friday, facing the winner of the Michigan vs. Iowa first round match in the first semifinal of the Big Ten Tournament. The Nittany Lions' match is scheduled to start at 10 a.m.
BTN will provide live coverage of the quarterfinals, semifinals and final of the tournament. All three of Thursday's games will be live streamed on the Big Ten Digital Network (BTDN). The first semifinal match on Friday will be live on BTN, while the second semifinal will air on delay at 11:30 p.m. ET that evening. The championship game will air live on BTN.


text: VDR developer version 1.7.5 is now available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.5.tar.bz2 A 'diff' against the previous version is available at ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/vdr-1.7.4-1.7.5.diff WARNING: ======== This is a *developer* version. Even though *I* use it in my productive environment. I strongly recommend that you only use it under controlled conditions and for testing and debugging. The main focus of this version is still the switch to Transport Stream (TS) as the recording format, as well as improved synchronization of replay with the progress display, trick modes and subtitles. IMPORTANT: ========== You need the DVB driver version from http://linuxtv.org/hg/~endriss/v4l-dvb or, alternatively, apply the two patches http://linuxtv.org/hg/~endriss/v4l-dvb/raw-rev/55fa4f709cf2 http://linuxtv.org/hg/~endriss/v4l-dvb/raw-rev/b5567f27fba7 (in *this* sequence) in order to replay TS recordings with full featured DVB cards! The second patch is only required for replaying pure audio recordings. Users of full featured DVB cards also need to use a new firmware, available at http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/firmware Note that the header files in the latest driver versions may be broken. If you get compiler error messages like /usr/include/sys/types.h:52: error: conflicting declaration 'typedef __ino64_t ino_t' /usr/include/linux/types.h:14: error: 'ino_t' has a previous declaration as 'typedef __kernel_ino_t ino_t' when compiling VDR, you need to put the driver header files back to how they were before they got broken. One way of doing this is to apply the patch from ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/vdr/Developer/v4l-dvb-header-fix.diff (I'm not claiming that this is the right way to fix this, since the driver developers may have had good reasons for making that change. However, both the driver and VDR compile and work fine with this). The changes since version 1.7.4: - Fixed a hangup when replaying a TS recording with subtitles activated (reported by Timo Helkio). - Fixed handling the 'new' indicator in the recordings menu for TS recordings (thanks to Derek Kelly). - Added cap_sys_nice to the capabilities that are not dropped (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg). - Updated the Italian OSD texts (thanks to Diego Pierotto). - Added cRecordingInfo::GetEvent() (thanks to Marcel Unbehaun). - Improved synchronizing the progress display, trick modes and subtitle display to the actual audio/video. This now works independent of any buffer sizes the output device might use. + The cBackTrace class has been replaced with cPtsIndex, which keeps track of the PTS timestamps of recently played frames. + cDevice::GetSTC() is now required to deliver the STC even in trick modes. It is sufficient if it returns the PTS of the most recently presented audio/video frame. + The full-featured DVB cards need an improved firmware in order to return proper STC values in trick modes (thanks to Oliver Endriss for enhancing the av7110 firmware). - Adapted cFrameDetector::Analyze() to HD NTSC broadcasts that split frames over several payload units (thanks to Derek Kelly for reporting this and helping in testing). - Modified cFrameDetector::Analyze() to make it process whole frames at once, so that file I/O overhead is minimized during recording (reported by Günter Niedermeier). - Added command line help for the '-i' option. - Fixed cDvbPlayer::NextFile() to handle files larger than 2GB (thanks to Jose Alberto Reguero). - Improved replay at the begin and end of a recording. The very first and very last frame is now sent to the output device repeatedly until GetSTC() reports that it has been played. cDvbPlayer::Action() no longer calls DeviceFlush() (thanks to Reinhard Nissl for making sure vdr-xine no longer needs this). - Added missing '[]' to the delete operator in cMenuEditStrItem::~cMenuEditStrItem(). - Added missing virtual destructor to cPalette. - Now freeing configDirectory before setting it to a new value in cPlugin::SetConfigDirectory(). - Fixed a crash when jumping to an editing mark in an audio recording. - Fixed the 'VideoOnly' condition in the PlayPes() and PlayTs() calls in cDvbPlayer::Action() (thanks to Reinhard Nissl). - cDevice::PlayTs() now plays as many TS packets as possible in one call. - Making sure any floating point numbers written use a decimal point (thanks to Oliver Endriss for pointing out a problem with the F record in the info file of a recording). - Fixed detecting the frame rate for radio recordings. - Added missing AUDIO_PAUSE/AUDIO_CONTINUE calls to cDvbDevice (thanks to Oliver Endriss). - No longer writing the video type into channels.conf if VPID is 0 (thanks to Oliver Endriss for reporting this). - Improved efficiency of cEIT::cEIT() (thanks to Tobias Bratfisch). Have fun! Klaus


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When going got tough, Bucs got tight
Martin Fennelly,
The Tampa Tribune
, published 4 November 2013
It was going to be the most improbable win in Tampa Bay Buccaneers history. It ended at the wrong end of a comeback. It ended with more of the same, more of the broken record that is 2013, so much that it actually crossed your mind that it bordered on cruelty, that Greg Schiano and his perpetually winless team didn't deserve this.
The Bucs lost to the Seattle Seahawks. They trailed but once, when the winning field goal split the uprights in overtime. For the longest time, they did so very many things right, with such great effort, even as 17-point underdogs, even into the fourth quarter. Out of all that, you get 0-8. Out of all that, you get the Bucs losing, despite being up 21-0 in the first half, 24-7 in the third quarter, and up by 10 in the fourth quarter.
For a good deal of Sunday, this was in no way, shape or form a team that had deserted its head coach. It was a team out to win its first game. They were beating the team with the best record in the NFC, they were beating a team that just doesn't lose at home. They were beating that raucous Seattle crowd, stunning it into silence, or even booing its team.
And then it hit the Bucs that it was really there for the taking — and they curled into a fetal ball. Out of all that, all that good stuff, it was another brick in the wall for Schiano's sputtering tenure, 13 losses in the past 14 games, another one by three points or less — he's 0-7 at those. Bucs rookie Mike James ran for 158 yards, his first 100-yard game since high school. Mike Glennon handled the crowd and completed 17 of 23 passes, two for touchdowns, no turnovers, for a 123.1 quarterback rating.
The Bucs went for it — Schiano went for it. I give him credit for that. How could you not love that onside kick? How do you not fall head over heels for James' Timmy Tebow jump-ball touchdown throw to Tom Crabtree (Tom Crabtree! — from Michael James). Out of all that ... "This is definitely a tough one to swallow," Glennon said.
For a time, the Bucs were next to perfect on third down. They won the turnover battle, decisively, with two red-zone interceptions off Seattle's Russell Wilson, including a spectacular goal-line play by Keith Tandy (Keith Tandy!) that snuffed a late Seattle drive. Could it be? No, it couldn't.
Out of all that, the Bucs finished as another historical footnote for another team. The Seahawks, in all their history, a history as long as Bucs history, had never come back to win a game after falling behind by more than 20 points. "We lost the game. I'm tired of losing," Bucs defensive tackle Gerald McCoy said. "We have to stop finding ways to beat ourselves. We just somehow find a way just to not win."
Out of all that ... "We've got to close out," Bucs cornerback Darrell Revis said. "... When you have a team down like that, you've got to choke them out. You've got to choke them out. Because great teams come back. Great teams do fight back and they did."
But it was as if the Bucs came face to face with the enormity of it all — that they could actually win a game — and it was too much for them. They scored three second-half points. Three. With each successive drive in the fourth quarter, it seemed less and less likely they'd do anything at all (no more third-down magic) or even take a chance.
I'm not talking about not going for it on fourth-and-short at midfield late in regulation. I wouldn't have done that, either. That's idiotic. But there's no way around the fact that when the going got tough, the Bucs got tight. Why, for example, is James not in the game on the first play of overtime so the Bucs can try some trickery with Skye Dawson? (Skye Dawson!)
Golden Tate's long punt return was a dagger. So was the inability for them to chase down Wilson. They couldn't choke the other guys out. "Seahawks, man, they just came back and won," McCoy said. "They showed why they are who they are. Simple as that." So did the Bucs.


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Exhibition Claude Lévêque
Sous le plus grand chapiteau du monde (Part 1)
Contemporary Art
from April 2, 2014 to January 25, 2016
With the support of Coton Doux Paris for the exhibition Sous le plus grand chapiteau du monde (Part 1 and Part 2) and kamel mennour for the work Sous le plus grand chapiteau du monde (Part 1).
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Claude Lévêque's work intervenes in the spaces it encounters, harnessing the energy of his densely-woven, intense 'plastic' vocabulary to deliver a powerful visual and sensory shock. As guest artist in residence at the Louvre, Lévêque's engagement begins with an incandescent light installation at Ieoh Ming Pei's celebrated Pyramid.
Neon – a signature medium of choice for Lévêque – strikes a great bolt of light, slicing an immense volume of air to scatter reflections day and night on the architecture all around.
After Tony Cragg, Wim Delvoye and Loris Gréaud, Claude Lévêque's creation in situ offers his own, highly personal reading of the museum's iconic entrance, to be extended further into the underground moat and keep of the medieval Louvre in 2015.
'Light and sound enact a complete metamorphosis,' says Claude Lévêque. 'They are the twin primordial elements in any sensation. After that come texture, visual images, atmosphere, objects and the rest.'
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Boston (30-19). The Red Sox still lead the division by 1 game after losing to the Blue Jays yesterday. The folks over at Suriving Grady are ready for a 1-9 roadtrip that could shake up the division a bit. Of course, that loss came on the heals of a 4 game sweep against some team. It is still a bit fuzzy.
New York (29-20, 1.0 gb). The Spankees took 3 of 4 over the weekend to remain 1 game back. Randy Johnson looked strong for the first time in a month yesterday against the Tigers. Of course he only worked into the 7th innings despite allowing only 2 hits and no runs. Two years ago, that would have been a 3-hit shutout and 12 K's. Of course, the folks at YanksBlog are ever the optimist, believing this marks a turnaround for the Big Mullett.
Toronto (28-22, 2.5 gb). The Jays took 3 of 4 over the weekend and continue to hang around in the AL East. We can see this team sticking around for a while, but will most likely fade in late July. We just don't believe in that pitching staff.
Baltimore (23-28, 8.0 gb). The O's salvaged the final game against the LA Angels, as they tread water slightly ahead of the Rays in the standings. Reading the posts over at Camden Chat, seems to indicate that the Oriole's fans believe the apocalypse is right around the corner.
Devil Rays (21-30, 10.0 gb). We might be willing to discuss this later in the day after we find a really big bloody mary to cure this hangover and a map to find our way out of this Glass Cage of Emotion.


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From Newsweek
The New York Public Library recently started an Instagram series featuring questions that people posed to librarians in the days before Google. Apparently, librarians stored the more interesting queries for decades. So far, the series has featured etiquette questions ("When one has guests, who kisses whom first?" someone asked in 1946) and a health and science inquiry from 1962 ("What is the gestation period of human beings in days?"). As antiquated as this analog method seems, millions of people in jails and prisons with no Internet access still rely on librarians for answers that could be found in seconds online.
In an office building near the NYPL's central library, with big windows looking out on the famous marble lions, a team of four people answers questions from inmates through the library's Correctional Services Program. The program started decades ago and now runs lending libraries in prisons and publishes a guidebook to help people upon release. Responding to as many as 60 weekly letters isn't an official service, but it seems to be growing in popularity. "By word of mouth we get more and more every year," says librarian Sarah Ball, who supervises the program.
Most questions — 84 percent, responders say — come from facilities in New York state; the rest arrive from all over the country. Many have to do with life after incarceration, but others speak to the interests and curiosities of the more than 2.2 million people behind bars in the U.S. One, for example, wanted to know how to grow potatoes and start a farm. Another wanted to eventually start a diaper business and sought consumer data. There have been questions about the power of healing crystals, trumpet playing and Wiccan priesthood certification. There have also been many, many requests for baseball statistics, and one frequent writer always asks for rap song lyrics. (more…)


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Warning: This post is a minefield of triggers and anger-inducing facts, ideas, and links.
I get told to shut up a lot. It isn't always said with the words "shut up." Sometimes it's said in statements like "You're too negative" or "You're too passionate" or "You should just stop thinking about that." I most often get told to shut up, in one way or another, when I'm "on about the rape culture."
I've coped with this by forcing myself to do some positive thinking. A few days pass during which I feel awesome. I have these kinds of days when I encase myself in a liberal, pro-choice, activist bubble. I start getting hopeful, knowing that things are changing. Slowly, but surely.
But most days, when I step outside my bubble, I'm just angry. I'll smile and share cute animals, sure, but I am almost always angry. Angry that we still live in rape culture and angry that it is still so misunderstood and overlooked. And in the past two weeks, very little has eased my rage. So, what's the point in fighting what I consider to be totally justifiable anger? There's certainly no shortage of beliefs to be angry about. Here are some examples.
Lara Logan: The hot journalist who got herself raped
While reporting in Cairo, CBS journalist Lara Logan "suffered what CBS called 'a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating.'"
Logan's assault has resulted in all kinds of survivor-blaming, claimed causes ranging from her looks to her "liberal belief system." Her assault has also been used to justify extremely anti-Muslim sentiments, most notably from Debbie Schlussel, who writes:
So sad, too bad, Lara. No one told her to go there. She knew the risks. And she should have known what Islam is all about. Now she knows. Or so we'd hope. But in the case of the media vis-a-vis Islam, that's a hope that's generally unanswered. This never happened to her or any other mainstream media reporter when Mubarak was allowed to treat his country of savages in the only way they can be controlled. Now that's all gone. How fitting that Lara Logan was "liberated" by Muslims in Liberation Square while she was gushing over the other part of the "liberation." Hope you're enjoying the revolution, Lara! Alhamdilllullah [praise allah].
As if all of this wasn't bad enough, a reader poll was created asking if Logan is to blame for her sexual assault.
As Media Matters says, "these people ought to be ashamed of themselves." But are they? The answer is no.
Don't want to be raped? Well, don't dress like a slut.
Yesterday, Excalibur, York University's student newspaper, published a story about this appalling advice given to women by a Toronto police officer on avoiding being raped:
On Jan. 24, a campus safety information session was held at Osgoode Hall, where members from York security and two male officers from Toronto police 31 Division handed out safety tips to community members. Ronda Bessner, who attended the session, remembered being surprised by what the officer suggested to women. "One of the safety tips was for women not to dress like 'sluts.' He said something like, 'I've been told I shouldn't say this,' and then he uttered the words," said Bessner, Osgoode assistant dean of the Juris Doctor Program.
There are many problems with this blatantly misogynist "advice," (sluts don't exist, survivor-blaming, etc.) but what bothered me the most was the fact that the police officer knew his comments were inappropriate, but he shared them anyway. His belief that if women dress conservatively and will therefore not be raped, and refusal to be challenged on that belief, is a glaring example of living in rape culture.
Rape is funny. Get a sense of humour. You can't take away my freedom of speech!
In August 2010, Penny Arcade posted its controversial Sixth Slave comic, which prompted a long and complicated battle over the use of rape in comedy and entertainment. During this debate (which is still ongoing), rape survivors were mocked and belittled and Penny Arcade's fans and writers retaliated in most immature ways. Trigger warnings were mocked and avowed rape survivors were asked to "prove it." Shakesville's Melissa McEwan, received numerous threats from fans, resulting in this post about why rape is never funny:
It's not good enough to say, "Lots of people can laugh at that without hurting anybody," not when laughing along conveys approval of the rape culture, whose vales are embraced by the people who do hurt other people. They aren't formed and they don't exist in a void–and the only responsible position, if you're not inclined to be their ally, is to have a zero tolerance policy on rape as entertainment. Otherwise, you're just creating opportunities for Bad Guys to have their fucked-up values reaffirmed and for Nice Guys to communicate silent approval. There is no neutral in the rape culture.
Arthur on IGN, whom I kind of fell in love with after reading this, summed up Penny Arcade's reponse perfectly:
I notice a distinct sense from a lot of internet dudes that they feel like things keep being taken away from them that they just took for granted, and they don't understand it. This is related to something called entitlement which I don't want to dig into here. What I'm saying is that the world is changing, and it can be hard to understand, and I think that causes knees to jerk. I don't see Mike acknowledging any of that, or Jerry saying anything at all. I see immature pushback making the situation worse, and a legion of Penny-Arcade supporters that are lashing out at anyone who has the audacity to express shock, disappointment, or disgust at Mike's actions. I see a bunch of entitled nerds refusing to understand that rape jokes can seriously fuck rape survivors up emotionally (and sometimes physically), thinking they can "take rape jokes back" when really, rape jokes were never theirs to begin with. And I don't buy the "jokes take away rape's power" argument. Jokes deflate serious conversations about rape and sexual violence and gender inequality and misogyny that are long overdue in western culture…
And just to bring this full circle, after I shared this article and the aforementioned post from McEwan, a man on Twitter responded with: "I've been following this for a while. So ridiculous! The comic was genius and people need to get a sense of humour." Yes. A prime example of missing my point.
So what do these stories all have in common? Well, a few beliefs. Rape can only be avoided by women. Dealing with rape is up to survivors. Rape is a fact of life, something we accept as always existing and something that will go on existing. Rape culture? What's rape culture?
What else? The fact that every time I shared these articles, at least one person asked me why I was surprised. "Why are you surprised that police tell women they won't be raped if they don't dress like sluts? They told us not to wear black during the G20." "Why are you surprised that Logan's rape resulted in survivor-blaming and racism?" "Why are you shocked that people still think rape can be funny?"
I know that most people who read Shameless will know what rape culture is and why it needs to be countered, so I won't spend much time on that. I wrote this because I am shocked and surprised when these things happen because it is 2011. Think about that. It's 2011 and this shit is still happening and people still believe these things.
And every time we allow people to dull the degree to which we're offended, angered, or shocked, we accept rape culture a little bit more. Rape becomes an unfightable, common part of life. And that's the opposite of what we want. What's important is learning to harness that anger.
So, come be angry with me. Talk to your friends and family. Point out comments and behaviours that support rape culture and explain why those comments and behaviours aren't acceptable. Write. Paint. Talk to your male friends about what they can do. Comment on what happens in the world. Challenge media. Whatever you do, don't shut up.
Rape Culture 101 by Melissa McEwan
How You Guys Can Prevent Rape, from Scarleteen
No More Excuses, from go it alone (together)
Note: It was extremely difficult for me to find current resources on how men can prevent and combat rape. If you come across any organizations or relevant links, please comment!


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) When No. 1 Notre Dame lines up on offense Monday night in the BCS championship, the team on the other side of the ball will look a little familiar.
Fighting Irish players and coaches said Friday that the defense for No. 2 Alabama and their own have some similarities, including that both teams are known for giving opponents plenty of different looks.
``They're pretty diverse on defense,'' Irish offensive coordinator Chuck Martin said. ``They use their three-down and four-down packages, much like our defense uses our three-down and four-down packages.''
Alabama calls its base defense a 3-4, though the Crimson Tide are in that formation about once every five plays in the estimation of coach Nick Saban. Since arriving in South Florida earlier this week, Notre Dame players said the long gap between games - the Irish have not played since Nov. 24 - hasn't so much hurt rhythm as it gave them time to prepare for what's coming in the title game.
Quarterback Everett Golson may have been the biggest beneficiary of all that extra preparation time.
``They have a great defense, and like I said earlier, they play their responsibilities,'' Golson said. ``So it's going to be hard for us to kind of exploit their defense. But I'm sure just my ability to improvise, and the guys' around me ability to improvise, we'll work something out.''
This much was clear: There's a great respect for the Alabama defense, with good reason.
While Notre Dame leads the nation in scoring defense by a fraction of a point over Alabama, the Crimson Tide gave up the fewest yards per game of any team in the country.
``Very big,'' Irish running back Theo Riddick said. ``Very athletic.''
Not to mention very good.
Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart said it's clear to the Crimson Tide that Golson has gotten immeasurably better since the start of the season. Still, even Golson knows he'll have to be at his best against a championship-proven defense in the title matchup.
``Like we've said time and time again, Alabama has a great defense, and there's many things that they do, talking about switching out from three-down to four-down, just simple things like that that you have to prepare for or you have to have it instituted,'' Golson said. ``But for me, it's definitely going to be a great opportunity to compete for this national championship, so I'm looking forward to it.''


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Good fun 50 min. ESL lesson with 40+ gr 9 students? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Good fun 50 min. ESL lesson with 40+ gr 9 students? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Japan View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message JapanologyJoined: 17 May 2012Posts: 35 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:41 am Post subject: Good fun 50 min. ESL lesson with 40+ gr 9 students? Hello teachers. Does anyone have a new fun and hip lesson plan they are using these days with our middle school Japanese junior high students? This is my last lesson with these groups and there isn't a specific objective, so I'd like to do something new, doable, and fun for a large group of middle school Japanese students. My Japanese colleagues are watching too, so I'd like to do something good. Anyone care to share? Much appreciated. Back to top OneJoelFiftyJoined: 06 Oct 2009Posts: 463 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 3:18 am Post subject: If you can use the gym, you can play baseball with English. Class in two teams, a bunch of questions of different difficulty (1st, 2nd, 3rd base, home-run). Batter chooses the question difficulty, pitcher asks the questions. You get the idea. I haven't taught it myself but a friend has and said the students love it. If the students are good at self-governing, you could even have four teams and two smaller games going on at the same time. In class, there are fun things you can do for review quizzes. Draw horizontal lines on the board, print good and bad character (eg. Mario and Bowzer), a pair for each team. Good characters start at 0, bad two spaces below. When a team answers a question correctly, they advance their character up the board, and they also choose another team's bad character to advance one space. If the bad catches the good, the good character gets taken back down to 0. You can go to the 100 Yen store and buy some fake money. Give each team some notes (say 30,000 Yen) and before you ask each question, announce the kind and difficulty (difficult listening, easy spelling, etc) and have them bet on whether they will get the right answer. Set limits to their betting, increase as you get towards the end of the quiz. Takes a bit more organising as you need to be sharp with keeping track of the bets and taking/giving money after each question. You can also buy mini white boards and pens from the 100 Yen store for students to write their answers on, first team to write and hold up the board gets the point. Make the students pass the board to the next student on the team after each question to stop one answering everything. Tends to get everyone involved. Make sure you ask plenty of easy questions to get them frantically writing too, and don't accept answers that you can't read easily. Do something fun for a warm-up... Music karuta is good for any age. Students in pairs or small groups, cut out some individual words from a song and have students try and grab the word when they hear it. Good with a familiar song where they know what's coming, or with a new song where they don't. Back to top JapanologyJoined: 17 May 2012Posts: 35 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:46 am Post subject: Thanks Fifty. Great suggestions. I appreciate that. One of my problems isn't really with ideas or even the students though. It's my Japanese team teacher. Its the end of the year, and we finished the New Horizons book early so s/he expects me to just do a bunch of classes myself while s/he just watches, and (ehem) judges. Which I find a little frustrating because I already have an existing quality control system and s/he is not a part of it. Based on past experiences, Id prefer s/he to just give me the class and they just stay in the office as I often find their presence a hindrance to learning and student participation under these circumstances. By the way, Im not an assistant in the JET program. We are team teachers in a MEXT school abroad.We are supposed to be equal and share the responsibility of the class as we are both licensed teachers. What typically happens when I do make a plan though, while explaining and modeling instructions to the students, my team teacher listens with a very confused expression on their face like Im crazy and the students then draw upon this and then the lesson deflection occurs as a result. One would reasonably say, well just go over the lesson with your team teacher before class. I would, but s/he avoids outside class collaboration and has taken a minimal approach to this aspect of their job. I think they are afraid to speak English or as coming across imperfect, and as a result, lose some sort of superior position. It just feels like I shouldnt be designing a student activity that expects them to work or try. For example, if one student isn't involved then I'm told, for all the class hear, "sorry teacher, but they don't know that yet", or " sorry teacher but they are worried about their spelling", as if I'm supposed to drop the whole lesson plan idea right then. Meanwhile, Im thinking, well help me out here and lets make it work. Then, when I do make the activities easily understood and doable, so that even the lowest level English student can understand, I get the " sorry teacher, but your lesson is too easy for them". I get very little assistance with "selling" my ESL activities to the students by using Japanese translation from my team teacher. But I always help them sell their NEW HORIZONS Japanese curriculum stuff to the kids. As a result of this, I feel a lot of pressure going into these classes just because of this. Its silly and its a little frustrating because Ive been successfully teaching ESL kids for years without these complications. I firmly believe that if the Japanese teacher wasnt there, the lesson would go smoothly and as planned, but for some complex reason, their presence brings out of feeling of lesson deflection and rejection from the students. Ok, well, now that I got that off my chest, I need a plan that overcomes this context. I could easily just give them a level appropriate writing assignment or make an ICT booking and get them to prepare a small PowerPoint presentation. This is what my J team teacher does when there isnt any New Horizon material to cover. They spend 2 or 3 classes that prepare the students for a speech that ultimately consists of 2 or 3 simple English sentences. Ive never seen them create or innovate their own plan. But it very much seems like I am expected to make the cover of ESL Today magazine with my lesson idea. Anyway, I need a new idea that engages a packed room of 40 kids with little mobility. I just feel like Ive already done every modified game show going and every variety of vocabulary game as well. I need something really good. Something that would actually get me on the cover of "ESL Today" magazine Any other really successful 50 minute activities going on over there in Japan that maybe I can try? Thanks again Fifty. Back to top Ryu HayabusaJoined: 08 Jan 2008Posts: 182 Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:41 am Post subject: Here's a lesson that was given to me a while back by a friend of mine who teaches at a high school. He's big into Drama and likes to incorporate a lot of role-play and skits in his classes. He's lucky because he teaches solo at a high-level school and teaches classes of about 14 students. My situation is not as good as his but I still got a lot of mileage out of his lesson. This is a lesson that practices writing, listening, reading, and speaking skills. There is an element of role-play that some of my students really got into. I don't have much experience with that kind of stuff but I've successfully taught this lesson at my schools with classes as large as 30 students and with classes full of shy and/or unmotivated students. I've taught this lesson both with an enthusiastic team teacher who helps whenever she can and with a team teacher who just stood at the back of class watching. Lesson Flow: Warm-up/modeling 3-5min Activity and wrap up 10min Modeling and explanation of next activity 5min Writing 10min Guessing and explaining 15-20min Wrap-up and reflection 0-5min Lesson Walkthrough: "Guess Who" game Before class, write the name of a famous person on a small piece of paper and put it in a hat or bag. Prepare small pieces of tape for quick taping during the lesson. At the beginning of the lesson, take that piece of paper out of the hat and tape it onto your forehead making a show of not looking at name on the piece of paper. Ask your team teacher and/or various students yes-or-no questions to model how to determine who it is on the piece of paper on your forehead. After asking someone, emphasize the fact that youre going to ask another person and that youre not going to keep asking them same person. When you have shown them that you know who you are, you stop and model how you want them to demonstrate their guess. Ex. Student: Mr./Ms. (teachers name)! Teacher: Yes, (students name). Student: Am I _______? Teacher: Well done, (student)! You can take the paper off your forehead but you can keep answering your classmates questions if you want. Elicit the questions that you asked the students and write them on the board. Explain that they are all yes-or-no questions and give an example of a kind of question that cannot be asked. E.g. Is this person a man or a woman? What movies is he in? Give students a minute to write down the name of a famous person on a small piece of paper. Explain that they can write down famous people or characters and that Japanese people are ok as long as their written in English/Romaji. The papers are collected, put in a hat, and shuffled. Instruct students to line up single-file. The shuffled papers are taped to students foreheads or backs. Make sure that students wait for you to say Start! before they begin asking each other questions. Give them 4-5 minutes to walk around and ask each other. They walk around and ask each other yes-or-no questions to try and determine who the person on their sheet of paper is. Once they know who they are, they go to you and use the grammar structure to tell you who they think they are. Then they keep walking around answering questions. As the students are walking around, you and your co-teacher erase the example Yes-or-No questions off the board, put up the conversation pictures, and number them 1-20. Put the numbered pieces of paper (for the next game) in the hat or bag. Make sure to balance your time between preparing for the next activity and answering students questions in the guessing game. Stop the game after a set time and get the students to take the pieces of paper off their foreheads. Congratulate the students who were able to guess who they were. Praise everyone for using the correct grammar and not using Japanese (if they deserve praise). "Picture Pair Conversation Guessing Game" Instruct students to throw away their pieces of paper and spend 1-2 minutes looking at the pictures on the board. The students sit down and you choose a high-level or confident student to help you demonstrate (or you can use your team teacher to help demonstrate). Point out to the class that you and him/her are partners. Point out that there are 20 pictures on the board and 20 numbered pieces of paper in the hat. Get your partner to pull out a numbered paper and instruct him not to show it to anyone else but you. Fake whisper your number to the rest of the class so that they know which picture you got. (this is just for this demonstration) Step away from you partner and tell the class that their task is to write a 6-line (minimum) conversation based on the numbered picture that they choose out of the hat. Ex. If my partner and I chose a 2, wed write a short conversation based on picture 2. Point out that the conversation shouldnt be too obvious. For example, if the picture has two people holding tomatoes, the conversation shouldnt go like, Hey, these are some nice tomatoes were holding! Make sure the students know that they will be reading their conversations to the rest of the class and that their classmates must guess what picture theyve written about. If a pair finishes writing their conversation much earlier than the rest of the class, mark (in pencil) errors for the students to correct themselves, and correct errors that the students arent capable of fixing. After everyone has finished writing their conversations, students volunteer and read their conversation for the class. If there are no volunteers, randomly choose student numbers and have those students read their conversations. After the students hear the conversation, they briefly talk with their partner and write down the picture number that they think the conversation was based on. Help students by reiterating key information in the conversation (that was just read) to help students guess if necessary. If students are stumped, ask the pair to read their conversation one more time. Elicit guesses from students. When a student pair correctly guesses, give them appropriate praise and, if they are confident or high level students, ask them to explain the reasoning behind their guess. If theres extra time, get students to fill out a quick self-reflection sheet as a ticket out the door. (Only students who are finished the sheet can leave.) Notes: This lesson may not work well with lower-levels students because the conversations would be too basic/ambiguous and the students might have too difficult a time matching the conversation with the picture. The pictures should be in color and big enough that they students in the back of the class can still see them. Or, you could display each picture once using a computer and projector. Then put the A3 color pictures on the chalkboard. Back to top JapanologyJoined: 17 May 2012Posts: 35 Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:37 am Post subject: Thank you for this Ryu. I think I'm gonna give this a try with the grade nines. Just knowing that it is a popular lesson in the Japan JET program gives me some confidence. Especially, if the students try to deflect it with my team teacher, i can just say to myself ( and maybe my team teacher too ) "...well, I'm trying, this lesson was a success with other Japanese students?" I'm gonna try Fifty's earlier suggestion using the "good and bad" character game with the 7 and 8's I think. Any more ideas out there? Here are a few that have been a big hit with the Japanese students in my neck of the woods. I'll just include a brief description and just let me know if you want more details. 1: "Dice of Fortune" - it's just a variation of "wheel of fortune" that uses dice instead of a wheel and uses the Whiteboard/blackboard as the playing grid and teams and terms/phrases from their curriculum. The dice #s represent money/miss a turn/and bankrupt just like the game show. 2. If you have a TV with USB port you can import flashcards up on the screen that have the " POWERPOINT Transitions effects" programmed in. Set the transitions to drag out to 15-25 seconds and the students watch in anticipation as the picture/vocabulary slowly reveals itself. The team or student who call out the correct answer gets the "carrot". Say goodbye to flash cards and laminations and say hello to USBs/Flatscreen classroom TVs/ and Google images with a little PowerPoint work! The students love it! 3. Always remember too - a class of 40 students are made up of 8 "Hans". Japanese students get in groups faster than any other student dynamic in the world according to both my experience and readings. Also important, the "Kakari" is 1 assigned weekly rotated student role that is responsible for classroom managemant among each Han and they report problem students to the homeroom teacher at the end of the day homeroom meeting. This is how the Japanese teachers elucidate their classroom managment role and achieve the highest student on-task behavior percentage in the world according to the OECD PISA Report , especially for J. subject based teachers. This whole concept is often withheld info from the foreign language teacher. After digging deep through various action research interviews, I applied the knowledge of the Hans and their accountability functions into my classes, and as a result, my classroom management improved significantly and on-task behavior went way up. If the foreign language teacher does not use the Han system the job is very challenging. Japanese teachers have told me they wouldn't know what to do without them. Generally speaking, this is why Japanese teachers have lost their specialization skills and have mostly become pastorial education administrators. The magic and art of student engagement has been lost and they marvel at a Western educated teachers ability to draw students in out of pure intrigue rather than through the conditioning system they are typically accustomed to. But yeah, any other Japanese "Hits" out there. I find that these learners are very specific. Ideas that I used with Chinese and Korean students do not work the same as with Japanese learners. A lesson can "flop" in a interesting way that I have never seen before. Thanks again Fifty and Ryu! Back to top TokyoLizJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1548Location: Tokyo, Japan Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:37 pm Post subject: Jeopardy Some great ideas here! I've been doing Jeopardy as a review game in elementary school. I first saw this game when my wonderful mentor teacher in a Vancouver ESL school did it with our team-taught classes. I described the game preparation and pattern of play on the blog I keep for Kashiwa City ALTs. http://kaltitude.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/gaikokugo-review-jeopardy/ I just realized, after reading Japanology that you could prepare some or all the questions on Power Point slides. Managing the question display would take a little ingenuity. I have a variant on Ryu's Guess Who activity that does not present any new language. I'll blog it today. Back to top JapanologyJoined: 17 May 2012Posts: 35 Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:50 am Post subject: Thanks for the link to your blog TokyoLiz. I looked through and really enjoyed it. The "Review Jeopardy" Game sounds perfect for my classes. I couldn't find the activity you mentioned that you were planning to post though. Nonetheless, thanks. Back to top OneJoelFiftyJoined: 06 Oct 2009Posts: 463 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 12:40 am Post subject: Can't really help with the teacher situation, I guess just be glad it's almost over. Make use of the New Horizon text book. Have spelling questions using some of the words in the back. Ask questions like "Where is Emi from?" and "What does Shin play?" Do "What comes next...?" and read out random sentences. Use "he, his, him, his" for a bunch of questions. Using the white boards for answers will make it more fun. Also, ask them questions about you. See how much they've remembered over the year. It's a good chance to act pretend angry when half of them think you're from Australia, the other half Canada, and you're actually English. Can you explain more about the Han system? If I said to my class "Please get in your 'han' groups." would they know what I meant? Back to top TokyoLizJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1548Location: Tokyo, Japan Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 1:26 am Post subject: Japanology, I got busy this weekend and only posted one activity so far. I might have time this week to post the interrogative activity this week. Back to top JapanologyJoined: 17 May 2012Posts: 35 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:55 am Post subject: Onejoelfiftywrote: Quote: Can you explain more about the Han system? If I said to my class "Please get in your 'han' groups." would they know what I meant? Brilliant question! And the answer is YES!. Japanese teachers have been using hans and Japanese term for " get in your Hans " since grade 1. The students will know what you mean. But they will also be very surprised that you know about them. I'm gonna start a new thread on this. Thanks Fifty . Back to top OneJoelFiftyJoined: 06 Oct 2009Posts: 463 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:22 am Post subject: Thanks. Is it the same as their lunch groups? Back to top JapanologyJoined: 17 May 2012Posts: 35 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 9:05 am Post subject: OneJoelFifty wrote: Thanks. Is it the same as their lunch groups? Yes, the same as the lunch groups. Sometimes they put two hans together for lunch groups though. 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